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by bcadmin | Nov 3, 2022 | and the Unsaved, Benedict XVI, Hell, Jesus Christ, missions, News, Pope John Paul II, Pope Paul VI, Salvation, Spe Salvi, The Dispatch, Vatican II | 0 |
The distinguishing feature of the doctrine and the pastoral program of the Second Vatican Council is Trinitarian Christocentrism. The Council’s teaching on the nature of Sacred Liturgy, on the mystery of the Church, on the […]
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We live inside the envelope of our senses. Our grasp of reality is limited by what we can see, hear,…
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Read Moreby bcadmin | May 19, 2022 | Chapp's Schtick, Columns, Crisis, damnation, Features, Gospels, Heaven, Hell, Jesus Christ, judgment, News | 0 |
Hell is often depicted in Christian art as a place of unspeakable physical torments where the unrepentant sinner receives his or her just punishments for various moral perfidies and offenses against the law of God. […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 25, 2022 | courage, Featured, Heaven, Hell, martyrdom, News, Spiritual Warfare | 0 |
The word Catholic translates as “universal” in the sense of“whole and inviolate.” There is one Truth – Jesus said “I am the way, the Truth, and the Life” – vs. myriad false doctrines. Evil is diverse and varied in its perversions, whereas good is constant and irreducible. As with Tolstoy’s happy families, the saints express […]
by bcadmin | Mar 20, 2022 | Devil, Fatima, Hell, Latin America, lead, News, News Analysis, Pope Francis, Religious Life, Traditionalists, Virgin Mary | 0 |
For the all the ways he comes off as a maverick, a disrupter and a revolutionary, there are nonetheless senses in which Pope Francis is also extremely traditional, perhaps even more than his two immediate predecessors.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 7, 2021 | 2021, believe in the Gospel, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, death, Deliberate violations of the Commandments, Heaven, Hell, Jesus Christ, judgment, News, non-judgmentalism, Rev. Jerry J. Pokorsky, Roe v. Wade, The Catholic Thing, Things, Understanding Mortal Sin | 0 |
Rev. Jerry J. Pokorsky: The Churche aprepares for the end. November is the month of the Last Things: death, judgment, Heaven, and Hell.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 13, 2021 | 2021, Apostle's Creed, bodily resurrection, carnis resurrectionem, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Heaven, Hell, Jesus Christ, Lutheranism, Martin Luther, Mass Credo, Michael Pakaluk, News, Purgatory, Resurrection of the Dead, sola fide, St. Theresa of Avila, St. Thérèse of Lisieux, The Catholic Thing | 0 |
Michael Pakaluk: We believe in the “resurrection of the dead and life of the world to come,” and we should live with that goal before us.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | May 20, 2021 | C. S. Lewis, Faith & Spirituality, Featured, Hell, News, Salvation, Sophia Excerpts, St. Faustina | 0 |
Over the last 20 years, the number of Americans who believe in the fiery down under has dropped from 71 percent to 58 percent. Heaven, by contrast, fares much better and, among Christians, remains an almost universally accepted concept. Underlying these statistics is a conundrum that continues to tug at the conscience of some Christians, […]
by bcadmin | May 5, 2021 | Abraham’s Bosom, Apostle's Creed, Creed, Crucifixion, Hell, News, Picks, relics, Viewing relics, Why Do Catholics Do That | 0 |
What was the purpose of Jesus visiting hell?
What is the spiritual significance of viewing relics?
by bcadmin | Mar 5, 2021 | Between the Sundays, death, Featured, four last things, Heaven, Hell, judgment, Living the Faith, memento mori, News, penance, sacrifice, sin | 0 |
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 25, 2021 | 13 September 1321, 2021, 700th Anniversary of Dante's death, Columns, Dante Alighieri, Heaven, Hell, Inferno, News, Paradiso, Purgatorio, Purgatory, Robert Royal, Robert Royal online course on The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy, Vita Nova (“The New Life”) | 0 |
Robert Royal announces a new online course about the greatest poem by one of the greatest poets of all time: Dante’s “Divine Comedy.”
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 6, 2020 | 2020, 2020 presidential election, All Soul's Day, Café Terrace at Night by Vincent Van Gogh, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Czeslaw Milosz, Dark Night of the Soul, David Warren, Heaven, Hell, News, ora pro nobis, The Catholic Thing, “feel-good” gospel | 0 |
David Warren: Faith ifeeds us. We may not know what is served in Heaven, but we do know “cafeteria Catholicism” will not be available.
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